Identifier: annualreport131415190newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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been an increase from 375 actionsbrought in 1904 to 1,372 in 1909, or about 365 per cent in five years. Dur-ing this time the number of protectors has been increased from fifty toeighty-five. These results can only have been brought about by a syste-matic and business-like administration. The personnel of the protectorshas been improved by the weeding out of inefficient men, and a systematicorganization has taken place of a force which, while not wanting in goodmaterial, lacked in cohesion and the proper placing of individual responsi-bility. For the first time, this year, credit is given to the heads of the differentdivisions for the work accomplished in their blocks. The first work ofthe organization of the force was to assign to each protector a definiteterritory, so that responsibility might be placed for violations occurringin this territory, and the protector might also have a definite area to patrol.While held accountable for the enforcement of the law in his territory, and 358
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GAME ALWAYS IN SEASON FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 359 for the education of the public in the reasonableness of the game laws, thefact of the protectors assignment to a particular section does not limit hisactivities to that territory. The protectors are encouraged to assist brother protectors in neighboring divisions, and to work with them where circumstances make co-operation advisable or necessary, and in addition the protectors are frequently sent to distant parts of the State. Habitual law violators soon become acquainted with the habits of the local protector,and devise clever systems of keeping tab on the protectors movements. It is, therefore, often necessary to bring in from other sections men who are not known locally, in order to secure convictions of this class of violators. There are times during the year when as many as thirty protectors are assigned to special work in other protectors territory for periods of severalweeks. In order to gain resu

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